Og Mandino Quotes
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Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat... Never take yourself too seriously.
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Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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Wealth, my son, should never be your goal in life. Your words are eloquent but they are mere words. True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.
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I will act now. For now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the evil become good. I am not evil. Tomorrow is the day when the weak become strong. I am not weak. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now.
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Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
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There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
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Today I will multiply my value a hundredfold.
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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
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I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
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Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.
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Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
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Do all things with love.
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I will persist until I succeed. I was not deIivered unto this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd.
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A field of clay touched by the genius of man becomes a castle.
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Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
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Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
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I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.
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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
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To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
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The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.